Mar 9, 2024 · Shanks proposes that we reexamine another theory: the “Midianite Hypothesis.” According to this theory, Mt. Sinai was not in the Sinai Peninsula, but in Midian in northwest Saudi Arabia. In the Bible, Moses fled to Midian after escaping Egypt (Exodus 2:15).

May 28, 2024 · KADESH IN THE BIBLE. In the Hebrew Bible, a place called Kadesh—also known as Kadesh-Barnea—was an important stop during the Israelites’ wilderness wanderings. Where is Kadesh? The site of Tell el-Qudeirat in the northeastern part of the Sinai Peninsula is considered to be the best candidate. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority.

May 2, 2022 · As announced by Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient temple of Zeus Kasios at the site of Tell el-Farma in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The discovery sheds further light on the religious multiculturalism that thrived in Egypt during antiquity.

Jan 17, 2022 · This nearly 4,000-year-old mining site and administrative center in southern Sinai may shed new light on the history of the alphabet. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities announced that an archaeological excavation at the site of Wadi al-Nasb in southern Sinai uncovered a 4,000-year-old ...

It was not the first writing system of this kind: 200 years earlier, the people of Ugarit a little further up the Syrian coast used a cuneiform alphabet (including some indication of vowels) to write their local language, and the Phoenician script itself seems to derive from an abjad in use in the Sinai peninsula in the early second millennium ...

Jun 14, 2021 · Except for a few occupations, “The Sinai Peninsula has been a part of Egypt from the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 3100 BC)” [ according to history & quoting Wikipedia ] Even though the name ‘Sinai Peninsula’ has only recently in Egypt’s history has been given to it – Egypt has almost always been in possession of that piece of ...

Jun 22, 2018 · A barefoot T. E. Lawrence grins after his successful occupation of Turkish-controlled Aqaba. Although Lawrence of Arabia’s arduous journey across the Arabian desert (called “God’s Anvil” in the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia) has captured the popular imagination, his activities at other Near Eastern sites—as an archaeologist-in …

Mar 12, 2024 · By contrast, the earliest alphabetic inscriptions from the Near East—the Proto-Sinaitic texts discovered in the ancient Egyptian turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Sinai—are generally dated to the 19th century B.C.E., more than half a millennium earlier.

Jan 19, 2014 · Moses and the children went through the Sinai Peninsula and crossed at a land bridge in Nuewiba over into Midia or what is now Saudi Arabia. The land bridge was built by sediments washing from the periodic rain fall over the centuries prior to the exodus.

Dec 13, 2023 · The ancient North Arabian site of Qurayyah was possibly the center of the land of Midian, where, according to Exodus, Moses first encounters the Israelite god Yahweh. Archaeological exploration at Qurayyah has brought to light a vibrant urban oasis that thrived for millennia and was closely connected with Egypt and the broader ancient Near East.